A finger-length fish has reignited a long-running debate about self-awareness, cognition and how much we’ve underestimated ...

Awareness, especially self-awareness, is very difficult to study.  Self-awareness evolved among our animal ancestors and is ...

A robot passed a classic test that determines if it can exhibit consciousness or self-awareness. In a logic puzzle called "The King's Wise Men," a king must choose one of three people to be his new ...

The ability to look into a mirror and recognize oneself is a cognitive skill we all take for granted, but very few animals outside of humans are able to do it. New research shows that monkeys can be ...